iMovie+05-06+Info

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 * Creating videos with iMovie 05 or 06 **


 * Magic Movie** - automated quick creation of a movie starting with the camcorder ending with a dvd. It's a quick way to get a rough movie from tape to dvd, but remember that it's completely editable, so you can clean it up later.

1. Start project - from camera or from existing file 2. Saving new project
 * Basic iMovie Skills**
 * Memory needed to save your video**
 * = This Much Video ||= Needs about this much disk space ||
 * = 1 Minute ||= 228 MB ||
 * = 15 minutes ||= 3.5 GB ||
 * = 30 minutes ||= 7 GB ||

3. iMovie Screen
 * Monitor - the window where the movie is actually seen.
 * Clip pane - where you store all your clips not yet in your movie.
 * Scrubber bar - the bar under the monitor, The two triangles at the left bottom of the scrubber bar can be used to surround a length of footage and either delete it (delete the footage between the triangles, or crop it (delete the text surrounding the selected footage.) The bigger triangle, hitched at the top is the playhead. You can split a clip at the current position of the playhead by the edit menu, split...
 * Clip View - consider this your story board- you can change order of clips, delete clips, or just move them back to the clips pane
 * Timeliner view shows the clips proportionally by time. You can move clips here, but it's more difficult than o the clip viewer. (You must move clips up or down and around other clips here.)

4. Bookmarks are only visible in Time Line view.


 * Interpreting Length of clip?**
 * 2:34:10 -- 2 minutes, 34 seconds - 10 frames into the next second


 * Transitions** -
 * iMovie has many of these available and they are easy to insert. Watch it because transitions are often overused. Most film has one clip just moving into the other. Make sure that any transition you choose adds to the quality of your project. A little red mark will show up on the affected clip in clip view.


 * Effects** - A little checkerboard appears after the length of a clip that has an effect applied to it. Possible effects are: color adjustments, aging film, Black & white, Brightness & contrast, flash and many more.


 * Titles -** Click the Titles option & choose the options you want. Test it with preview. When satisfied select the T-box by the effect you choose in the scroll window and drag it to the position you want it in the time-line bar.